An all-timer of a duel between Marc Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia was the rightful headliner of a wonderful Spanish Grand Prix, as each minimize into Jorge Martin’s factors lead.
However there was additionally a weekend-conditioning moist qualifying and a deeply messy dash, and whereas no one put collectively a very full three days because of this, there have been some correct disasters on the opposite aspect of the coin, as mirrored in our common rider rankings.
Scoring the grid so as primarily based on their performances not simply in the primary occasion but in addition Saturday’s dash race, it’s clearly all subjective – however comes not simply from their remaining race outcome however bearing in mind issues just like the equipment they’re on and the pre-race expectations.
1 Marc Marquez
Began: 1st Dash: DNF Race: 2nd

Demons have been exorcised for Marc Marquez at Jerez in 2024.
On the scene of the accident that just about ended his profession and value him years of his life in 2020, we knew that he would lastly be fast right here once more due to his fixed enhancements on the Gresini-run Ducati – however the show he placed on in opposition to Pecco Bagnaia on Sunday very a lot cements that he’s on the way in which again to his outdated kind.
A win would have been a fairytale ending, however he’ll be pleased to commerce Jerez glory for realizing that the trail to being constantly on the high once more will get simpler from right here on in.
2 Pecco Bagnaia
Began: seventh Dash: DNF Race: 1st

There won’t be a finer defensive racer on this planet than Bagnaia proper now.
His skill to maintain somebody behind him when all they need to do is make it previous is second to none, as Marquez discovered on Sunday, and it’s exhausting to think about a extra deserving winner given the way in which that he rode.
Closing up on Jorge Martin within the championship is the icing on the cake in what was a really, very sturdy weekend for the reigning world champion (regardless of the dash collision) – and, he’ll be hoping, the actual begin of his title defence.
3 Alex Marquez
Began: sixth Dash: DNF Race: 4th

As all the time on weekends when the elder Marquez brother attracts all of the headlines, his sibling went a bit beneath the radar in Jerez – however Alex Marquez very a lot exceeded expectations with a couple of sensible performances.
Simply off the rostrum on Sunday, he ought to have been combating for it on Saturday, too, had circumstances not instantly caught him and a load of others out.
A tandem crash! 💥 @alexmarquez73 , @BradBinder_33 and @Bestia23 ended up within the gravel on the identical time however with out colliding with one another! 🤯 #SpanishGP 🇪🇸 pic.twitter.com/j4BsFLi403
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) April 27, 2024
Overshadowed earlier than by different Ducati GP23s, it’s honest to say that he too has discovered enhancements – and he may make issues fascinating within the subsequent few weekends.
4 Marco Bezzecchi
Began: 2nd Dash: DNF Race: third

Lastly capable of tackle the GP23 adaptation points which have plagued him all season to date, Marco Bezzecchi instantly confirmed that he’s nonetheless acquired kind by being proper on the sharp finish all weekend in Jerez.
Not fairly matching the fierce tempo being set in entrance of him on Sunday, he was nonetheless capable of keep involved with the Ducatis in entrance to lastly get himself again to the place he was 12 months in the past on his new machine.
5 Enea Bastianini
Began: ninth Dash: DNF Race: fifth

Regardless of the actual fact he walked away from it with a fifth-place end and a cushty third within the championship, Enea Bastianini’s weekend was comparatively nameless.
Not making a lot headlines however chipping away each till he acquired caught out on Saturday (in a formation crash with two others) and all through the primary occasion on Sunday, it’s a good efficiency even when it wasn’t fairly a wonderful one.
6 Pedro Acosta
Began: tenth Dash: 2nd Race: tenth

One other relatively sensational weekend for the celebrity whose first dwelling grand prix highlighted the job he’s doing of successful the hearts and minds of Spain.
After he was capable of dodge all of the chaos with a stage head within the dash to chalk up one other podium for his already-impressive CV, Acosta’s Sunday didn’t fairly go in addition to deliberate – compromised by an enormous warm-up crash and having to run a distinct bike.
However, the way in which he tailored and rallied remains to be spectacular.
7 Dani Pedrosa
Began: sixteenth Dash: third Race: DNF

Who’d ever have thought that we’d be celebrating a MotoGP podium for Dani Pedrosa in 2024?!
Certain, it may need come via barely odd circumstances and tough circumstances, nevertheless it proves which you can nonetheless educate an outdated canine new tips.
Sunday’s crash may need put a little bit of a damper on it, however with Pedrosa’s subsequent return to racing unsure, there’d be worse methods to stroll away than with a podium in your remaining end, six years after retiring.
8 Miguel Oliveira
Began: 14th Dash: eighth Race: eighth

Maybe probably the most stable weekend that we’ve seen from Miguel Oliveira in a very long time, coming dwelling as he did as high Aprilia in each races and with two respectable finishes beneath his belt – one thing that he’s been sorely lacking just lately.
He didn’t make headlines, however that’s type of precisely what he wanted from Jerez, and hopefully it’s a base that he can construct on going forwards.
9 Fabio Quartararo
Began: twenty third Dash: fifth Race: fifteenth

A reasonably standard-issue weekend for Yamaha at a monitor the place its bike used to work properly and is now a little bit of a catastrophe, Fabio Quartararo’s massive achievement was clearly staying on the machine when nobody else may within the dash to safe his first podium in 2024 – even when a penalty took it away from him once more.
Sunday’s race was a crash again to actuality, however no less than for a couple of seconds he reminded us of how fast he might be in the precise circumstances.
10 Jorge Martin
Began: third Dash: 1st Race: DNF

There was a time when unforced errors from the lead have been what you anticipated from Martin. One almost-successful title marketing campaign later, we thought he had realized his lesson – however Sunday was a worrying return to the previous for him.
One of many key moments of the race! 🤯@88jorgemartin made a monumental mistake as he crashed out of the lead at Flip 6! ❌#SpanishGP 🇪🇸 pic.twitter.com/0aRFgcOu0y
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) April 28, 2024
Saturday’s dash win as most of his rivals crashed out is a small salve for his wounds, however he threw away the possibility to take care of a really snug championship lead thanks primarily to hubris in the primary occasion.
11 Franco Morbidelli
Began: eighth Dash: 4th Race: DNF

Slowly however certainly, Franco Morbidelli’s race-winning type of 2020 is returning. It won’t fairly be all there but, nevertheless it’s now nearer than it has been in a really very long time – and which may have been an element within the relatively impatient transfer on Jack Miller in Sunday’s race that left each of them within the gravel.
The Italian isn’t there but however he’s getting nearer – and it would nonetheless are available in time to assist save a MotoGP future that as just lately as a couple of weeks in the past appeared to be slipping away from him.
12 Brad Binder
Began: 4th Dash: DNF Race: sixth

On the one hand, salvaging a high six from a messy weekend is a hit for Brad Binder – however the actuality is that in his journey to Jerez, a monitor the place KTM all the time shines, he was as soon as once more outshone by way of peak outcomes by each his rookie compatriot Acosta and check rider Pedrosa.
One thing isn’t working accurately for Binder, who was fortunate to flee sanction on Saturday for crashing into Bagnaia, for the time being.
13 Fabio Di Giannantonio
Began: fifth Dash: thirteenth Race: seventh

This felt very very like a weekend the place Fabio Di Giannantonio’s outcomes didn’t fairly tally up together with his potential. After he’d seemed sturdy in qualifying however was one of many many victims of each crashes and tyre strain penalties within the dash, Sunday’s race felt prefer it provided extra alternative for him to run on the sharp finish like team-mate Bezzecchi, however he misplaced contact with the group in entrance and that was that.
14 Augusto Fernandez
Began: 18th Dash: seventh Race: DNF

But extra ahead momentum for the Tech3 Gasoline Gasoline racer, even when the outcomes actually didn’t replicate it on the finish. Working via points with the 2024 bike, he’s steadily getting sooner, as he confirmed on Saturday with a reliable trip as many others fell off round him – however clutch issues on Sunday that first brought about a bounce begin after which a mechanical DNF meant that it’s exhausting to say simply how a lot of an enchancment the Moto2 2022 champion is making.
15 Joan Mir
Began: twentieth Dash: ninth Race: twelfth

In a world the place one of the best achievement a Honda rider can at the moment rating is to be the highest Japanese bike on the chequered flag, Joan Mir no less than managed to realize that on Sunday. Alongside scoring his first-ever dash level and ending each outings, it tallies up together with his declare that the mix of him and the bike is slowly however certainly getting higher.
16 Maverick Vinales
Began: eleventh Dash: DNF Race: ninth

After two actually sturdy weekends and his first-ever Aprilia race win, Maverick Vinales went into his dwelling race strolling on water – and noticed it lead to nothing in any respect, after rain in qualifying buried him properly down the grid and he discovered himself wholly unable to try to repeat his Texan successes.
It means he now actually has to begin strongly in Le Mans if he’s to show that this and never his wins was the exception to his kind.
17 Raul Fernandez
Began: seventeenth Dash: twelfth Race: eleventh

There wasn’t something significantly unsuitable with Raul Fernandez’s dwelling race weekend, with a good outcome within the dash that was solely waylaid by a tyre strain penalty and a good if not distinctive points-scoring end on Sunday simply outdoors the highest 10. However whereas ‘uneventful’ is one phrase for it, one other is ‘nameless’ – and also you’d have anticipated given current kind that he ought to have been nearer to team-mate Oliveira.
18 Taka Nakagami
Began: twenty fourth Dash: tenth Race: 14th

If there’s one phrase to explain Taka Nakagami, it’s ‘survivor’. He’s the man you possibly can usually count on to nonetheless be standing after a chaotic weekend, and Jerez (by far his favorite circuit to race at) was no exception. A end on Saturday when many didn’t and factors on Sunday when not even all of Honda’s manufacturing unit racers may handle it’s a fairly good weekend for the Japanese racer.
19 Johann Zarco
Began: thirteenth Dash: eleventh Race: DNF

Making extra headlines after the race together with his feedback in regards to the FIM MotoGP stewards than he did throughout it even after being concerned in not one however two investigated incidents, Zarco’s precise performances have been very a lot overshadowed.
But he was as soon as once more doing a good job for Honda all weekend, serving to once more to show his price as a part of the crew working to repair the unruly RC213V.
20 Alex Rins
Began: twenty fifth Dash: fifteenth Race: thirteenth

A troublesome weekend for Yamaha at Jerez, someplace the place the bike ought to have labored significantly better, was very a lot mirrored in Alex Rins’ outcomes – and it actually shouldn’t be ignored how a lot of a silver lining a couple of factors on the finish of it have been, given Yamaha’s struggles.
It’s exhausting to say that rather more was on provide given the state of the machine and his personal lingering bodily points.
21 Stefan Bradl
Began: nineteenth Dash: DNF Race: sixteenth

An nameless weekend for the Honda check rider is par for the course, and what you count on from somebody out to collect information greater than to race. Crashing out within the dash, circumstances imply he can’t be held too accountable for that, and a stable outcome on Sunday forward of manufacturing unit racer Luca Marini cements that Stefan Bradl is greater than quick sufficient to be doing his present duties for the Japanese manufacturing unit.
22 Lorenzo Savadori
Began: twenty first Dash: sixteenth Race: DNF

A reasonably regular weekend for Lorenzo Savadori on one in every of his Aprilia check rider appearances. He didn’t actually do something that he shouldn’t have on the Italian manufacturing unit’s ‘laboratory’ check bike besides crash on Saturday and never see Sunday’s chequered flag – which seems like a catastrophe however is not given circumstances within the dash and the actual fact the grand prix retirement was as a result of a technical subject.
23 Jack Miller
Began: fifteenth Dash: 14th Race: DNF

The horrible run of kind for Jack Miller continues. Unable to be quick within the form of tough circumstances he used to relish in qualifying, that basically set the stage for the remainder of his weekend, and whereas Sunday’s DNF got here by the hands of Morbidelli, it’s price noting that when he acquired knocked off, he had simply develop into the third KTM on monitor due to Acosta’s current overtake.
24 Luca Marini
Began: twenty second Dash: DNF Race: seventeenth

Luca Marini’s rating is easy to clarify: in a straight race, a manufacturing unit Honda rider shouldn’t be getting crushed by the check rider.
Nonetheless very a lot struggling on the RC213V no matter what enhancements are being discovered, it’s one factor for the Italian to complete a good distance from team-mate Mir, however to even have Bradl forward of him is greater than somewhat bit embarrassing.
25 Aleix Espargaro
Began: twelfth Dash: DNF Race: DNF

A double DNF is dangerous for a manufacturing unit rider. A DNF that takes another person with him is worse. And leaving the man you’ve simply knocked off mendacity within the gravel is one other step.
A very disappointing weekend all spherical by a rider who shouldn’t have discovered himself within the place he repeatedly ended up in.